Feng Shui 2023 House Arrangement

What is Feng Shui

Literally, the word Feng Shui (pronounced Fung Shway) means Wind-Water. It is an ancient Chinese science that creates balance and harmony in living & workspaces so that your life force energy or Ch’i (pronounced chee) flows, increasing your prosperity, health, and happiness.

Feng Shui works with:

Five elements (wood, earth, fire, metal and water)
Yin and Yang
The BaGua
More harmonious furniture & space arrangements
Special “cures” or solutions to fix problems with your living and work space and the exterior surroundings.

Consider the balance of nature, and how nice you feel in the mountains, by a river or in a flower garden. This is the feeling Feng Shui can help you achieve within your surroundings.

Partly, Feng Shui is using our common sense. Clearing out clutter, removing old and unused items, and creating a more peaceful environment. But, of course, Feng Shui takes it much further than that.

There are visible and invisible energies that affect you. The floorplan of your home, the land and buildings surrounding your home or office, furniture placement, and the alignment of doors are just a few examples of Feng Shui issues.

There are also symbolic things that can block our flow. For instance, a toilet seat lid kept open can signify money being flushed away from you. Dead plants can stagnate Ch’i, therefore stagnating your progress.

Sometimes negative energy can come from an invisible source, such as bad vibes from a former tenant, or electrical vibrations from a power company. For each “negative” energy, Feng Shui has a cure, or a solution.

Feng Shui actually isn’t that hard to practice and a perfect Feng Shui 2023 house arrangement is not impossible to obtain. The more you do it, the better you get. You learn to develop a sense of visible and invisible energies that affect you.

Feng Shui uses an eight-sided pattern or Mandela called a Ba-Gua (translation: 8 symbols that hang up there). Each section represents a certain area of your life, such as career, benefactors, children, money, marriage, etc.

By overlaying the pattern to the floorplan of your home, you can identify the sections affecting the different areas of your life. (When applying the Ba-Gua symbol to the layout of your home, the front door is always considered the main entrance, even if you don’t use it).

If the garage is attached to the home, you need to include it in the layout. Some homes have extensions or missing sections when putting the Ba-Gua over the layout.

Feng Shui has cures that can re-energize or enhance these sections. Each side of the Ba-Gua also represents a different element (water, earth, etc.), as well as color, which we can keep in mind when decorating our home.

Bad House Arrangement Feng Shui (Sha)

clutter
dusty, unused or broken items
Bed directly under a window
Broken windows, screens, door
Exposed nails on walls
Water leaks or leaks in the roof
Exposed beams
Door at the end of a long hallway
Aggressive corners
Slanted walls
Front and Back doors aligned
Stove under a window
Staircase which faces the entrance door.

The 9 Minor Additions – Eliminate Negative Feng Shui from your House

Once any Sha has been identified, you can apply feng shui remedies and cures which will eliminate negative energy flow. Clean out the clutter, throw out junk, remove stuff you’re not using, fix broken windows, etc.

For things such as exposed beams, placement of furniture or appliances which can’t be moved, use an appropriate Feng Shui cure to restore and energize Ch’i.

These are called the 9 minor additions:

Bright Objects (mirrors, crystals, and lights)
Colors
Sounds (wind chimes, bells, music)
Vital Life Force (plants, fish, pets)
Kinetic Energy (water fountains, fans, windmills, flags, wind)
Heavy Objects (statues, sculptures, rocks)
Electrical Energy (electrical appliance, computers, TVs, stereo systems)
Symbols (bamboo flutes, the Ba-Gua, shapes corresponding to the elements, symbolic shapes such as an angel in the marriage or relationship area).
Other additions (flags, curtains, incense fragrances, pictures, rugs)

For instance, if your bed is under a window and you can’t move it, hang a faceted crystal ball 9 units (inches, cm, etc) from the ceiling in front of the window. What about exposed beams?

A Chinese bamboo flute hung on a beam transforms negative energy into positive. You can use the 9 minor additions to fix negative Feng Shui, energize certain sections of your house, and improve the flow of Ch’i.

The Three Secrets

Once you put your cures or solutions into place, they need to be reinforced by the Three Secrets, which uses the body, speech and mind while putting the cure in place.

For instance, after hanging a crystal or mirror, you could use your mind by visualizing a clear picture of the improvement you’d like to occur. While doing this, use your body by holding your hands together in prayer.

And use your speech by chanting a prayer, affirmation or mantra nine times. (the number 9 is important in Feng Shui).

Master Thomas Lin-Yun believes that by placing a Feng Shui cure in an area, you improve the area by 10%. But when it is reinforced with the Three Secrets, it is reinforced 120%.

Feng Shui for the Main Entrance & Other Areas

The main entrance is an important area and should be kept free of clutter and blockages. For instance, a wall that blocks the rest of the house from view as you enter your home can block the flow of Ch’i, creating obstacles. Stand at your doorway, facing the interior.

How does it feel? Are there obstructions? Is there a stairway or column? Is there anything pointed facing the door (such as a desk or wall on an angle). Move what you can, and soften the unmovable aggressive corners with plants or fabric hangings.

Or you can put up a cool folding screen…fold it into a cup shape so that the corners will not create negative energy. The front part of the Ba-Gua (therefore, the front part of your home) is associated with water.

In 2023 (Chinese Year of the Rabbit) , hanging pictures of water, such as the beach, lakes, and rivers, helps honor this element.

A running fountain or an aquarium in the front section of your home also helps Ch’i flow wonderfully. Hanging a bamboo flute over the front door on the inside will bring blessings to you & your guests each time you enter or leave your home.

When discovering which area of the home affects the different activities of our lives, we can do things that enhance and honor these areas.

Learn each section, along with the color and element associated with it. For instance, for a woman who is having trouble getting pregnant, first, she would locate which area of her home represents children.

Then she could place white flowers in that room (being careful to remove all dead leaves and blossoms), hang a Feng Shui crystal, bring in metal wind chimes or add more light to that area.

Cleaning out clutter, dusty items, and broken things from this room would be a great start in restoring more harmony, making it easier to conceive.

The outside of the home is also significant to consider. Homes that are on a bay are said to drain the energy of the occupants. Homes at the end of a dead-end street or cul-de-sac can affect your abundance financially, physically and spiritually.

Dry plants or dead trees on your property are bad for health. When your home faces a T-intersection or a cemetery, it can block Ch’i. Often, just the simple placement of an 8-sided mirror on the exterior of your house can bring great improvement.

Feng Shui is a sacred philosophy and should be practiced respectfully. If you are going to use its methods, be serious about it, rather than taking a light-hearted, humorous approach.

Your intention behind your actions is fundamental, so use positive and hopeful energy as you apply Feng Shui cures.

Start simple. Tackle the area which represents what is most urgent in your life right now, making it a step at a time, and as you see results, your energy is elevated. You are inspired to tackle more areas of your home or workspace.

Even though this article contains some good information about Feng Shui, it is just the beginning.

You would do yourself a service by studying Feng Shui and knowing the purpose behind each cure or action. For the best results, information and experience, consult a Feng Shui consultant.